The weather sure has been changeable lately! Take yesterday, it poured all morning long but by lunchtime, it had pretty much stopped, so we attempted a walk....
lots of leaf litter....
at this point, weather was moving in again...one Bald Eagle right there in the middle...
there he is!
So with showers moving in, we decided to turn back, but by the time we got to the parking area, the showers had stopped again, so we went the other direction....
low laying cloud making for a nice photo...
a Great Blue Heron perched on pilings in the river....
oh my goodness! Sunshine! It only lasted for about 5 minutes, but what a golden moment!
across the river, sun shone through the mist....
on the river itself, spotted this Horned Grebe. Not a species we see here very often.
there have been large flocks of gulls on some of the local farm fields but they are too far off to ID....this one actually in the river is a Glaucous-wing, the most common gull species for our area. Note the all light grey colouring and dark eye.
While this one which was feeding on a salmon on the shore is an Olympic Gull which is actually a cross between a Glaucous-wing and a Western Gull. Note the darker grey (not black) colouring. I'm not sure if there are more of these around or I'm just getting better at figuring out which is which.
So at this point we were turning back and the skies were getting darker and darker. We just made it back to the car before the skies opened....and as we went to pull onto the the highway, heading for home....
a tree full of eagles in the pouring rain. It appears the season of the eagles has arrived.
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